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Song Analysis: Pain and Anguish of a Man in the Song, His Tears

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They found him. Gray as a rainy sky, hanging there, Swinging back and forth from the rope, face swollen, He had been crying, suffering over the anguish of losing her. He had watched her fade. She faded slowly, Like the fall rose as winter came with its horseman, Cutting her in her down in her prime. The acidic tears fell, burning his cheeks as they tumbled to the tiled floor below. He left the room without a word. He watched as the redness left her body, And her eyes growing darker like the setting sun. Their shimmer, like two deeps pools of water, Quickly transformed into lumps of coal before his eyes. It had taken her, That dreadful disease that had no cure, In her prime. She was scared, and in pain: fading, wasting, wasting, fading. The acidic tears fell, burning his cheeks as they tumbled to the tiled floor below. He left the room without a word. He was angry. As she drew her last, her body shuddered "I love you," she whispered, And as loudly as she came into the world, she left it just as quietly. The acidic tears fell, burning his cheeks as they tumbled to the tiled floor below. He left the room without a word. He hid is pain, behind the whiskey breath and the smell of rum. As the pain got worse, so did his love of the delirious escape. A piece of him was missing. A cut that had sliced so deep. On the anniversary of her death, the storm clouds became too great. He fell to his knees, bottle in

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